Finding Home

Does anyone else out there find themselves asking where to put down roots? I want to live in one house from the time Timmy starts kindergarten until our last child graduates high school if possible. I want to feel settled in a house so we can get furniture without worrying about whether it will work in our next house. I want to feel settled in a neighborhood so that we're invested enough to make friends out of neighbors and find our favorite local restaurants and coffee shops. After 4 moves in the past 7 years, I just want to be settled. Only problem is, we have almost no idea where. I am living in the place I grew up in and I am not convinced I want to stay here forever or raise my kids here. It's also extremely limiting to PJO's career to stay... There is pretty much no other employer besides his current one that he could really move to in our area and he doesn't think the place he is at is where he'll spend his career. I love a lot of things about this part of the country but there are downsides too. We could go almost anywhere, but have no real ties to any particular place. Trying to narrow it down to a short list seems impossible. We aren't ready to look for jobs elsewhere but I think we probably would start in a year or so. Did anyone else put there mo e somewhere without family and for no specific job?